Act Number: 3

Act Name: The Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya Act, 1996

Year: 1997

Enactment Date: 1997-01-08

Long Title: An Act to establish and incorporate a teaching University for the promotion and development of Hindi language and literature, through teaching and research, with a view to enabling Hindi to achieve greater functional efficiency and recognition as a major international language and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 3: Establishment of the University.
    (1) There shall be established a University by the name of "Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya".
     (2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Wardha.
     (3) The first Chancellor and the first Vice-Chancellor and the first members of the Court, the Executive Council and the Academic Council and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya".
     (4) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the said name.
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